Flight Schools in Arizona — The Complete List
This is the list. Every flight school in Arizona we have been able to verify, grouped by the city and airport they actually operate from — not the city their marketing targets. Partner schools and non-partner schools are both here, because a directory that only lists the people paying for it is an advert wearing a directory’s clothes.
Scottsdale 12 schools
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American Flyers ✓
A national training brand operating since 1939, with a Scottsdale location. Structured, long-established, and priced like a professional academy.
- Discovery flights
- Career track
Scottsdale · KSDL · Website · 480-939-3997
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Arizona Type Ratings ✓
Cessna Citation jet type ratings for pilots who already hold a commercial certificate. Not a starting point — listed so you know it is not one.
- Career track
Scottsdale · KSDL · Website · 602-614-7994
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ATP Flight School (Scottsdale) Listing shows closed ✓
ATP’s original Scottsdale listing shows as closed. The brand still operates in Glendale, Mesa and Tucson.
- Career track
Scottsdale · KSDL · Website · 904-595-7950
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K & S Aviation Services, Inc.
Scottsdale · SDL · No phone in the listing
Unverified · Claim listing →
Tucson 7 schools
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Epic Flight Academy ✓
A large national Part 141 academy, headquartered in Florida, with a Tucson presence. Career-track programmes and international student pipelines.
- Discovery flights
- Part 141
- Financing / VA / visa
- Career track
Tucson · Tucson area · Website · 520-614-6448
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Arizona Aero-Tech ✓
Accelerated training with international M-1 visa and VA veteran programmes, sharing a building at Tucson International with Double Eagle Aviation.
- Discovery flights
- Financing / VA / visa
- Career track
Their website works, but only at the insecure http:// address — the https:// version serves a broken certificate, so many browsers will show a full-page security warning. That is a website problem, not a school problem.
Tucson · KTUS · Website · 520-294-1551
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ATP Flight School (Tucson) ✓
ATP’s Tucson location, on the same national accelerated syllabus.
- Discovery flights
- Career track
Tucson · Tucson area · Website · 904-595-7950
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Alpha Air, Inc. ✓
Founded in 1980 by Civil Air Patrol search-and-rescue members and structured as a non-profit flying club. Billed as Tucson’s oldest operating flight school.
- Discovery flights
- Pay-as-you-go
Tucson · Tucson area · Website · 520-883-4430
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Double Eagle Aviation ✓
Tucson International school running a 10-day accelerated instrument course. Shares a building — and, by all appearances, an operator — with Arizona Aero-Tech.
Tucson · KTUS · Website · 520-294-8214
Chandler 6 schools
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AeroGuard Flight Training Center (Chandler) ✓
The Chandler campus of the AeroGuard academy network — structured, career-track training with cohort start dates.
- Discovery flights
- Career track
Chandler · KCHD · Website · 480-937-1260
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Chandler Air Service ✓
Arizona’s aerobatics and tailwheel specialist, at Chandler Municipal. A genuinely distinctive skill set alongside a weak public rating.
Chandler · KCHD · Website · 480-963-6420
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Classic Air Aviation, LLC Relocating ✓
Mid-relocation from Falcon Field to Chandler Municipal. Their Google listing says "temporarily closed" and their website is down — call before you write them off.
- Financing / VA / visa
As of July 2026 their Google listing shows "temporarily closed" and their website returns a server error, but their own Facebook page says they are relocating from Falcon Field in Mesa to Chandler Municipal Airport and paused operations for the move. We list them here rather than deleting them because "the internet says closed" and "actually closed" are not the same thing, and a student searching for them deserves the real story.
Chandler · KCHD · 602-574-5376
Glendale 6 schools
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ATP Flight School (Glendale) ✓
National airline-pipeline academy with a shared national phone line. Fast, structured, expensive, and aimed squarely at career pilots.
- Discovery flights
- Career track
Glendale · KGEU · Website · 904-595-7950
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Angel Aviation - Arizona ✓
Operating at Glendale Municipal since 2001. Two decades in business with a very small public review footprint.
- Discovery flights
- Pay-as-you-go
Glendale · KGEU · Website · 623-698-1413
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Arizona Flight Training Center ✓
The most consistently well-reviewed independent school on the west side of the valley, flying out of Glendale Municipal.
- Discovery flights
- Pay-as-you-go
Glendale · KGEU · Website · 623-877-9334
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Aerosim Aviation No website found ✓
A small independent LLC at Glendale Municipal with no website we could find. Phone is the only route in. Not related to the national "Aerosim Flight Academy" brand.
Glendale · KGEU · 623-341-4311
Mesa 6 schools
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ATP Flight School (Mesa) ✓
ATP’s Falcon Field location. Accelerated, airline-focused, and run to a national syllabus.
- Discovery flights
- Career track
Mesa · KFFZ · Website · 904-595-7950
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CAE Phoenix - Aviation Academy ✓
One of the world’s largest airline-pilot pipeline operators, with a Mesa academy. Cadet programmes and airline placement, not casual lessons.
- Discovery flights
- Career track
Mesa · KFFZ · Website · 480-948-4515
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Aviation Performance Solutions ✓
Upset prevention and recovery training for professional and corporate crews. World-class at what it does; it does not teach beginners to fly.
- Career track
Mesa · KFFZ · Website · 480-279-1881
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UND Aerospace Foundation Flight Training Center
Mesa · IWA · 480-809-4499
Unverified · Claim listing →
Prescott 5 schools
Phoenix 4 schools
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AeroGuard Flight Training Center (Phoenix) ✓
Large career-track academy with several locations and an Air Force training partnership. Built for the zero-to-airline path rather than the weekend learner.
- Discovery flights
- Career track
Phoenix · KDVT · Website · 623-233-1630
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Aerodyne Flight Center ✓
Small independent school at Deer Valley with a Redbird simulator and mobile CFI instruction — it will come to your aircraft.
- Discovery flights
- Pay-as-you-go
Phoenix · KDVT · Website · 480-359-7979
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Deer Valley Skyhawks ✓
A flying club rather than a commercial school — members share aircraft at Deer Valley. Worth a call if you want club economics rather than rental rates.
- Pay-as-you-go
Phoenix · KDVT · Website · 602-625-6815
Marana 3 schools
Payson 2 schools
Benson 1 school
Flagstaff 1 school
Goodyear 1 school
Maricopa 1 school
San Manuel 1 school
Somerton 1 school
Why Arizona
Arizona is one of the best places in the country to learn to fly, and the reason is unglamorous: the weather cooperates. More than three hundred flyable days a year means lessons happen when they are scheduled, and a lesson that happens is worth more than a lesson that is planned. Training that takes eighteen months in Seattle can take eight here, for the same money, largely because nothing gets scrubbed.
What this page cannot tell you is which of these schools is right for you. That depends on where you live, what you are training for, how fast you want to go, and what you can spend. That part is a conversation, and it is the part we do for free.
By city
- Flight schools in Phoenix — Phoenix Deer Valley Airport (KDVT)
- Flight schools in Scottsdale — Scottsdale Airport (KSDL)
- Flight schools in Glendale — Glendale Municipal Airport (KGEU)
- Flight schools in Chandler — Chandler Municipal Airport (KCHD)
- Flight schools in Mesa — Falcon Field Airport (KFFZ)
- Flight schools in Tucson — Tucson International Airport (KTUS)
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